Mark Saltman was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut and now resides in Washington, DC. He holds a BA in Music from Western Connecticut State University and an MA in Composition from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he studied with musical pioneer and mentor Dr Yusef Lateef. Over the past couple of decades, he has scored independent fi lms, played numerous jobs on the double bass, and also taught music in the public and charter school systems. Saltman has written scores for the award-winning feature length fi lm Dante, a remake of the original Inferno as well as for short fi lms including The Hard Sale, Perchance To Dream, Bells For Her, Missing You, and is currently working on episodes of sci-fi trilogy Paradox.
